Matthew Wayne Selznick

(From Multiverse Magazine)

April 3rd, 2004
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MULTIVERSE MAGAZINE ADJUST PUBLICATION SCHEDULE

Hesperia, California, USA ? Multiverse Magazine, the online periodical featuring fiction and non-fiction with an emphasis on world-building, has adopted a bi-monthly publishing schedule effective with the April/May 2004 issue, now available at http://www.multiversemagazine.com.

Editor Matthew Wayne Selznick said, ?We have a high standard at Multiverse Magazine. At this time, the number of quality submissions isn’t where we’d like it to be. Rather than lower our standards and publish more issue per year, it’s better for the magazine — and our readers — to cut the number of issues.?

The latest issue of Multiverse Magazine includes two short stories from writers new to Multiverse, Mark Hodgett and R.Cee. Both offer social science fiction with a dystopic view of the future.

This sixth issue of Multiverse Magazine also includes the contents of the last five issues.

Multiverse Magazine is published monthly. The publication provides compensation for its contributors from a portion of advertising revenue ? one of few online magazines to do so

Contact information:

Multiverse Magazine
http://www.multiversemagazine.com

Parent company MWS Media
http://www.mwsmedia.com
PO BOX 402081
Hesperia CA 92340-2081

Multiverse Magazine, the online periodical featuring fiction and non-fiction with an emphasis on world-building, expands to include three fiction pieces in the March 2004 issue, now available at http://www.multiversemagazine.com.

Editor Matthew Wayne Selznick said, ?I?m excited ? the stories in this issue are all different from one another, and run the gamut from light fantasy to thoughtful social science fiction. This issue exemplifies what we hope Multiverse Magazine to achieve.?

The latest issue of Multiverse Magazine also includes the next installment of Selznick?s column on world-building, ?WorldWrights,? which continues to explore the capabilities of Planet Factory 1.0, a set of spreadsheet tools available for free from the magazine.

The fifth issue of Multiverse Magazine also includes the contents of the last four issues.

Multiverse Magazine is published monthly. The publication provides compensation for its contributors from a portion of advertising revenue ? one of the few online magazines to do so.

Contact information:
Multiverse Magazine
http://www.multiversemagazine.com

Parent company MWS Media
http://www.mwsmedia.com
PO BOX 402081
Hesperia CA 92340-2081

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FEBRUARY 1, 2004
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MULTIVERSE MAGAZINE PRESENTS PLANET FACTORY 1.0

Hesperia, California, USA ? Multiverse Magazine (http://www.multiversemagazine.com), the online periodical featuring fiction and non-fiction with an emphasis on world-building, offers the spreadsheet tool Planet Factory 1.0 at no charge to readers of its February 2004 issue.

Featured in the ?WorldWrights? column, Planet Factory 1.0 allows users to design realistic stars and the planets that orbit them. It utilizes the latest scientific information and educated conjecture to model such features as stellar luminosity, planetary gravity, temperature, atmospheric composition, and more.

Planet Factory 1.0 is available in both OpenOffice and Microsoft Excel formats, providing wide compatibility with most platforms, including Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. The free software is released under the popular GNU General Public License, and is Open Source.

The fourth issue of Multiverse Magazine also features fiction from Tobias Seamon, as well as the entire content of the first three issues.

Multiverse Magazine is published monthly.

Contact information:

Multiverse Magazine
http://www.multiversemagazine.com

Parent company MWS Media
http://www.mwsmedia.com
PO BOX 402081
Hesperia CA 92340-2081

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MULTIVERSE MAGAZINE PUBLISHES DECEMBER ISSUE, PAYS CONTRIBUTORS

Hesperia, California, USA — Multiverse Magazine, the on-line publication presenting short fiction with an emphasis on world-building, has released its second issue at http://www.multiversemagazine.com.

Editor and Publisher Matthew Wayne Selznick of MWS Media (http://www.mwsmedia.com) is pleased to announce cutting the first checks for contributors to the November issue of the magazine.

“We have a compensation model that depends on advertising revenue. While some have questioned the effectiveness of this approach, I’m proud to say we had enough advertising revenue to pay our November contributors a modest amount. As Multiverse Magazine grows in popularity, so will our revenue, and our ability to pay authors even more.”

Most Internet fiction magazine do not pay contributors. Selznick hopes to draw authors and readers to Multiverse Magazine with his advertising-dependent compensation policies.

“If an author publishes in Multiverse Magazine,” Selznick went on, “that author will get paid. It might not be much, but there’s a potential for some income every month for six months.”

Each author’s piece remains in the magazine’s archives for six months.

Multiverse Magazine is published monthly.

Contact information:

Multiverse Magazine
http://www.multiversemagazine.com

Parent company MWS Media
http://www.mwsmedia.com
PO BOX 402081
Hesperia CA 92340-2081
760-964-8044

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So it’s been a while since I’ve written much — since the fires settled down, anyway. I guess I don’t have the urge to do reportage, or whatever it was I was doing during that week.

So my new magazine is out there. I’m hoping (hint) that some folks will contribute fiction to it for the next issue — I’d like to reach a point before very long where months go by without a story by yours truly is in there. It’s not that I don’t want to write — it’s that more people will come to the site if there’s a range of writers. I’m not interested in making it a showcase for my own work.

This is a poor-ass entry, I know. Mainly, I’m trying to keep in the habit.